Novel - ideas: dad

Sunday, 17 June 2018

DAD (Shaped card)

Hi friends!

Wishing you all a very Happy Father's day!

Father's are so very special to all of us.

They are our Role models, our superheroes and they complete our worlds.

Here's a couple of shaped cards I made especially for Father's day.

I am obsessed with shaped cards. The best thing about them is that you do not need many supplies. Here's how I made them :))

I printed the word to the size required on a white card. Fussy cut it. Fussy cut two textured card panels using this as a template.

I took card bases of approx. size 7.5" x 3".

Mounted one fussy cut panel directly on the folded card base using foam adhesive. (Place it leaving perfect margin from the folded side. As this side cannot be trimmed.) Once it was mounted trimmed the remaining three sides to create equal margins from all the sides.

The second card is a shaker card. So before mounting the panel on the card base, I adhered acetate sheet to it. Added double tape all around the shape, making sure that all the edges are covered. Also, the boundary created for shaker elements had to be perfect with no gaps (Or the shaker elements would slip out of the gaps) I put the shaker elements in each alphabet windows. Carefully placed the folded card base over the panel making sure that I placed it centrally leaving equal space all around.

Next, I stamped some images and some sentiments. Coloured and fussy cut the images. Adhered them all on both the cards.

There the cards are done!
Wasn't it super easy to make these?

Thank you for spending your precious time here.

Playing along -

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Thursday, 14 June 2018

DAD - Captain of my heart

Hello Crafty friends!

With Father's day just three days away, I am sure you all must be busy making cards for it.

I was so tied up with my other commitments that I couldn't find time to make one till today.

Finally after a lot of brain-storming session(this went on for many days as I have been planning these cards for more than a week now) I came up with this card.

I have used a lot of sentiment stamps for making the background.

This is a super easy technique, seen a lot many times in use.

My concept here was to use all sentiments that would be descriptive of a father-figure.

A father is always a role-model who rule the hearts of all the family members. The hard-work and the efforts by him are always noteworthy.

For the sentiments here, I went through my entire stash of stamps and collected all the possible ones that would reflect today's Dad. On a white card stock, I stamped all the sentiments one by one, using dye inks by Lawn Fawn. Also stamped few tiny images in between to make it little more interesting.

I kept the center portion blank as I had planned to place my main sentiment there.

Foam mounted this panel on a white card base.

I die-cut the word DAD using the LLD little alphabet dies by My Favorite Things (MFT). Stacked 4 of them to make it dimensional. I stacked 3 layers of white and topped it with a black die-cut. (I had initially planned to keep the word in white, but changed my mind and finally made it black to pop it against the busy background)

I stamped the main sub-sentiment "captain of my heart" using Versafine Onyx black ink. Later adhered the word using liquid glue.